Either you’ve already heard of pandoc or if you have searched online for markdown to pdf or similar, you are sure to come across pandoc. This tutorial will give you a basic idea of using pandoc to generate pdf from GitHub style markdown file. The main purpose is to highlight what customizations I did to generate pdf for self-publishing my ebooks. It wasn’t easy to arrive at the set-up I ended up with, so I hope this will be useful for those looking to use pandoc to generate pdf. Specifically aimed at technical books that has code snippets.